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From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Bad sectors
Keywords: chkdsk bad sectors
Message-ID: <5268@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Jan 89 16:35:25 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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   I seem to recall that CHKDSK in its report gives the number of bytes
occupied by bad sectors. Is this correct? I have two hard drives.
CHKDSK makes no mention of bad sectors on either one of them. Have I
been incredibly lucky? Is the bad sector rate on hard disks lower than I
think it is? Is there some switch I need to give CHKDSK to make it
report bad sectors? What?
   For your information, I have a Plus Hardcard (10 meg) and a Seagate
238R.
   Thanks in advance...

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